| A203D said: I'm also a bit confused. In the case of Vgchartz it seems that games released in the PS2 era, before PS3 have not been tracked as effectively. This is what Capcom said in 2009: http://www.edge-online.com/news/devil-may-cry-series-hits-10-million-sales/ In total, at the time of 2009 the series had shipped (not sold) 10 mil units. Now we know DMC4 did ship 2.7 mil copies. Thats in line with Vgcahrtz, so I think that one is correct, I'm not sure about the PS2 games however which Capcom reported at: DMC1: 2.5 mil DMC2: 1.6 mil in 2009 Capcom didn't present a specific number for DMC3. But based on that article where they report 10 mil copies shipped, it infers that DMC3 and DMC3:SE shipped 3.2 mil copies combined. Even then Vgchartz has overtracked that by a good 1 mil units. However I'm recultant to beleive DMC3 did indeed sell 3.2 mil copies because I've never seen Capcom present that number. Its also confusing because I recall at one point Capcom saying that DMC4 was the best selling entry to the series. (Although I can't find a link for that). So I think fault lies with Capcom for not being 100% clear on that matter rather than Vgchartz. In the case of DmC, I know it seems Vgchartz hasn't got it right. But I think Capcom is also accounting for sales over PC, Steam, Xbox Live and PSN. Those are numbers that Vgchartz dosen't provide tracking for. Capcom have also admitted that the game did not sell as well as DMC4 in Japan for obvious reasons. Which is werid because I always see Japanese players at the top of the leaderboards, lol. Capcom have also not given us any numbers for the DMC HD rerelease. By the way I've seen Dragon's Dogma is in the bargain bin at Amazon. Worth picking up in your opinion? I'm looking for a decent RPG. |
Capcom clearly state that it's only PS3 and X360 sales so the PC sales shouldn't be included. I think Capcom keeps PC sales seperately as they are usually outsourced and usually have delayed releases. On this page http://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/business/salesdata.html they list DMC franchise as having 12m units across "19 titles" (not quite sure how they got to that number) as of March 31 2013, if DMC has sold 1.1m acording to them and the franchise had sold 10m units back in 2009 when DMC4 had sold 2.2m DMC4 has since managed to sell ~500k more (2.7m total) that leaves ~400k for the HD pack which seems a tad low... Or they were rounding up a lot when they claimed the franchise hit 10m or rounding down now. I would imagine that Capcom's own shipment numbers must be more reliable than any 3rd party tracker but they could have made a mistake somewhere I guess.
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